“A detective sergeant will be working for Racing NSW and the NSW Police with the full powers of the police,” V’landys told The Sun-Herald.

“The benefits for the police is they will see first hand what happens in the racing industry.

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“All the credit has to go to the NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller, who is a visionary in policing. Rather than wait until something happens, he wants to avoid it happening. We are going to proactive in ensuring the integrity of the sport.

“We are strengthening everything up so that people can have full confidence in the integrity of racing in NSW,” V’landys said. “Racing has received so much bad publicity with the Darren Weir situation that we want to show in NSW we don’t want to just let it happen, we’re going to make sure it doesn’t happen."

Mr V'landys said the partnership would act as a major deterrent. “If you are a racing participant now, you would be very, very silly to do anything wrong because you will not only feel the full force of the racing rules but might get the full force of the law."

The laws around racing are also being strengthened with legislation before government to allow Racing NSW to compel anyone to give evidence to inquires and hand over mobile phones for forensic imaging.

The Racing Legislation Amendment Bill is the result of recommendations from Racing Appeals Tribunal head David Armati, who is appointed by the NSW government.

Other changes to the Racing Legislation Amendment Bill will provide Racing NSW with explicit power to make rules in relation to horse racing and grant the police commissioner the power to exclude a person from a racetrack if it is in the public interest.

Racing NSW is next week also set to employ a former detective, who has had experience in all forms of policing, as part of its integrity team.